I have high Google Page Rank, and as a result of that, lots of spammers make trackbacks. Every day I have to delete them. Will those trackbacks negatively affect my site’s SEO? How can I disable all trackbacks on my site? I have run the following code in my MySQL admin and using the WordPress … Read more
The company I work for has an enterprise WordPress site that was acquired from a different company. I don’t know if there was a past hack or if it’s just accumulated spam or what, but the wp_redirection_404 table has grown to roughly 7GB. I tried grepping the table for Viagra, Versace, Nike, etc. and got … Read more
I can’t find any plugin or script to place a “report as spam” button in my comments section. The button could simply: – open a form to report a spammy or problematic comment to the admin – send an email or store in the db the problematic comment ID ready for being checked/deleted by admin. … Read more
Does any one know of a Plug in that will help with reducing the number of unknown user requests to my site? current when a new user requests access I can only see an email address and username. Is it possible to ask the user to also make a short comment, to make it easier … Read more
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So I own an article directory website and recently a lot of bots have signed up and started posting spam. (I approve posts prior to publication) I’ve added a captcha to the user registration page now but for the users that are already registered I want to make their passwords expire so they have to … Read more
My website has recently come under attack by a wave of spam user accounts. My website uses a custom login that forces users to use their email address as their username, however the spam users all have regular usernames so I am assuming they are running a script which sends POST requests to /wp-login.php. It … Read more
We look after a bunch of WordPress sites none of which run themes which involve public participation. So basically the setting Membership – anyone can register is always turned off. I have just taken a look at one particular site and found a few dozen mystery subscribers in the user list. Checking the settings I … Read more
Bots are ever so slowly taking over our existence and even the greatest captcha or guard will fail at points. This may result in a high amount of spam accounts that needs to be deleted. Removing these manually via wp-admin is painful. Any way to quickly remove these? 1 Answer 1 Yes. There are a … Read more
The site is Videos-de-musica.com it is a simple wordpress blog with music videos. Somehow the subdomain stats.videos-de-musica.com filled up with spam, I remember setting the domain for pwiki stats, but then uninstalled it and I don’t remember what happened to it. This is an example spam page stats.videos-de-musica.com/aal-0exe.htm When you search PRINTABLE SUPERMAN EMBLEM BATMAN … Read more
